Tim Baker

I completed a BA Journalism at RMIT while also undertaking a journalism cadetship at the Melbourne Sun. I am currently midway through a creative writing PhD at Griffith University, on "the quality of life issues and psycho-social challenges of living with cancer." The creative component of this is a book, Patting The Shark, documents my seven years living with stage four, metastatic prostate cancer, to be published by Penguin in August 2022. I am now turning my attention to my exegesis, "Towards a new language of cancer", exploring how the ways we write and talk about cancer might relieve or exacerbate the distress of cancer patients.